by Michelle Ly | Sep 21, 2010
In my last post, I introduced the use of clinical stem cell therapy in treating multiple myelomas and lymphomas. The treatment focuses blood stem cells, known as hematopoietic progenitor cells (HPCs). By transplanting healthy HPCs into patients, nearly normal white...
by Stem Cell Network | Aug 25, 2010
Right now, you’re seeing this blog post thanks to your cornea. In concert with your eye’s lens, the cornea refracts light and allows you to distinguish the letters on this page from the background. But your cornea is vulnerable to disease — clouding...
by Allison Van Winkle | Aug 16, 2010
There are currently over 100,000 people in the United States on the waiting list for an organ transplant. Between January and March of 2010, fewer than 7,000 patients received transplants. Imagine, as an alternative to donated live tissue, a tissue-engineered...
by Stem Cell Network | Jul 15, 2010
The liver is the largest solid organ in the human body, and performs a critical function in keeping us alive: it removes waste from our bodies, detoxifies our blood, and helps in various other capacities to protect us from harm. Liver disease can severely compromise...
by Paul Krzyzanowski | Jul 8, 2010
The concept of personalized medicine is an intuitive one: knowing what treatment to provide a patient based on their own individual case of a disease. Molecular techniques and various flavours of “-omics” provide high precision in determining the status and types of...
by Francina Jackson | Jun 17, 2010
How do adult stem cells work? In healthy tissue the adult stem cell population lies dormant. Dormant stem cells are activated by external trauma signals, which trigger patterns of gene expression and protein biosynthesis, thus activating the stem cells to multiply and...
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